Parliament’s spy agency watchdog has complained that MI5, MI6, GCHQ and the other spy agencies that it oversees were failing to respond to its inquiries in time – meaning that work on an inquiry into Iran had been delayed.
The all-party intelligence and security committee (ISC) also warned that ministers had failed to expand its remit to include the growing intelligence activities contained within government departments, leading to “genuinely troubling” gaps in oversight.
